Urban Gardens

The Six-Frame Hanging Planter Frame. 

Update 2022: This product is no longer in production, but this post may offer some DIY inspiration. See this one on Etsy.

I came across Planter Frames at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show in … Read More...

As I learn more about the benefits of indoor plants–such as how they improve air quality by filtering the air and removing toxins–I also contemplate how to integrate them with a room’s design.

I consider these indoor plants much like … Read More...

Ok, let’s call a spade a table. Using aluminium, pop rivets, hose clamps, and found spades, Stockholm designer Fredrik Paulsen has created the Garden Table.

Garden tools are also inspiration to Dutch designer Nic Roex in the form of his … Read More...

Created by Republic of Kazakhstan-based design firm, Good, Facepots are a whimsical collection of variously sized pots that feature a portrait beneath a plant, making the foliage appear like individual’s wild tresses.

From big daddy to little tot pot. … Read More...

Ok, I admit it. I fell hopelessly in love with Aloha Man at the Philly Flower Show. Gotta love a guy that isn’t afraid to wear a skirt. And what about that tattoo? Spotted: a couple of botanical fashion forward … Read More...

Amsterdam-based Architectural Designer Robert van Embricqs’s practice is based on “movement and transformation combined with practicality.” The rounded beads of his Decorating Fence, above, are designed to engage children in play as they actively move the colorful beads.

Through the design of her Zoie Planter, Helen Kontouris expresses her belief that “ecology in design today, rests on the role of the designer as cultural architect, creating products with clear purpose, intelligent material appropriateness and function that arrest you … Read More...

Spotted at the Philly Flower Show: simple ceramic vases like the Dots vases, above, by Tod Newgren of Toronto company, Chive. Dots are flat round vases that hang on the wall. For the show, they grouped various colors in rows … Read More...

One of the most interesting items I spotted at the Philadelphia Flower Show wasn’t even for sale. Michael Cullen of Lichen & Moss built this vertical planter from two pieces of reclaimed perforated sheet metal that someone gave him. He … Read More...

With its Hawaiian theme, this year’s Philadelphia Flower Show did succeed in transporting me, if not to paradise, at least into my imagination for a few hours of fantasy. It did immersed me, perhaps a bit Disney-style, into the sights, … Read More...